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W. C; EDGE.

METALLIC FABRIC.

No. 324.015. Patented Aug. 11, 1885.

rmmmfm TU LJ'LMUILJM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM CHARLES EDGE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IVIETA'LLIC FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,015, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed December 4, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknownthatl, WILLIAM CHARLES EDGE, a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Metallic Fabric, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a face view of a strip of metal from which my improved fabric is made. Fig. 2 represents the fabric in course of construction around a cylinder. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one face of the completed dat fabric. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the fabric on an enlarged scale, the line c c, Fig. 3, indicating the plane of section; Fig. 5 represents the opposite face of the fabric.

This invention relates to a new metallic faloric which is made from a continuous strip of metal of a peculiar form, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, the letter A represents the strip of metal from which the fabric is made. This strip hasl holes a a of angular form cut out of it, leaving between these holes posts b, which project from the continuous lower bar, f', each post carrying at its lower portion a head or enlargement, d. When I say upper portion77 and lower portion,77 I use these terms for convenience, and with more particular reference to the position of the parts as represented in Fig. 1. In making a fabric from this strip I coil the strip around a cylinder, B, Fig. 2, and insert a head, d, through every aperture a that happens to come over (No model.)

'der the lower half of each hole a will be covered by the head d that is anchored in it, while its upper part will be covered by a bar, c, 'of the superimposed coil. rIhe heads d being of greater extent laterally than the holes a, will, when put through the holes, anchor one convolution of the strip in that which is next above it, so that, finally, a complete fabric is produced which, after it is taken off the cylinder B and cut open, will have the appearance which is represented in Fig. 8.

In the completed fabric the posts b will be entirely hidden on one face, except at its edges, as represented in the upper and lower parts of Fig. 8, while on the other face (see Fig. 5) nothing but the posts will be visible, producing a basket-like design.

The fabric can be used for the manufacture of bracelets and other articles of jewelry, is iiexible, and easily constructed.

The fabric composed of strips A, having lower continuous bars, c, posts b, apertures a, and heads d, the heads d of one strip being introduced through and anchored in the apertures a of the next adjoiningstrip, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM CHARLES EDGE.

Witnesses:

CHARLEs G. M. THOMAS, HARRY M. YURK. 

